Read Charles Heflin’s article titled “Social Bookmarking – Tag and Ping Article 2”.


Read Charles Heflin’s article titled “Social Bookmarking – Tag and Ping Article 2”.

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Social Bookmarking – Tag and Ping Article 2

Are you ready for the next evolution of search as we know it?

Thousands and thousands of people all over the planet are turning to a new way to find relevant information that does not rely on a stuffy search engine algorithm to serve results.

Instead a new system is in place and it is growing exponentially. Enter the beginning of the web 2.0 era – Social Bookmarking.

What is Social Bookmarking?

It is basically a system that allows Internet users to bookmark a site without storing it on their local computer. Instead it is stored at another location that is publicly accessible. The bookmark is “tagged” with keywords that the user decides are relevant to the content of the bookmark.

For example: Lets say I find a site that I really like about Playstation 2 games. I want to bookmark it but not in the old way. I want to be able to find my bookmark later but I may not remember where I put it or what I called it, so I assign it keywords (tags) that will help me to find my bookmark later.

I might tag the link as: video games, playstation, cool games, games, gaming

Using tags, I can easily find my bookmark at a later date without having to remember where I put it. Even better, my bookmarks are not stored on my local computer so I can access them from anywhere.

I can assign one bookmark to multiple categories so I have the comfort of knowing that I can easily find that bookmark later.

Not only can I find my bookmarks that I “tagged” with certain keywords but so can anyone else. This is social bookmarking.

The group effect of this is amazing.

Read the complete article at the site: http://www.seo2020.com/seo-articles/social-bookmarking.html

Go to SEO 2020.

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*IMNewswatch would like to thank Charles Heflin for granting permission to reprint this article.

 

 

 

 

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